The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe

Editors: Professor Soumitra Dutta, Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Amit Jain, Gérard Richter

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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About this book

Europe enlarged its boundaries in 2004 with the accession of ten new member states to the European Union. The creation of an effective information society is seen as critical to the global competitiveness of Europe. Based upon detailed data collection and rigorous analysis, the book presents a benchmarking study of the 10 new member states and 3 candidate countries of the European Union as compared to the 15 incumbent countries with respect to the development of their information societies. Using a framework based on the Europe 2005 benchmarking framework, the 28 EU members and candidate countries are ranked according to their level of information society development, and then classified into 4 categories. The results presented in this book are of importance to all managers and companies doing business in the IT sector in the European Union.

Frontmatter

Introduction

Soumitra Dutta, Arnoud De Meyer, Amit Jain, Gérard Richter

Chapters

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Title: The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe
Editors: Professor Soumitra Dutta
Professor Arnoud De Meyer
Amit Jain
Gérard Richter
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-33156-8
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-26221-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33156-5

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The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Introduction

Chapters

Frontmatter

1. An Assessment of the Relative Level of Development of an Information Society in the Enlarged European Union

2. Electronic Business in the European Union: An Assessment of the Digital Divide in Business

3. The Impact of ICT on Social Cohesion: Looking Beyond the Digital Divide

4. The Role of European Governments in the Digital Economy

5. Value-Based Information Management in European ICT Strategies

6. Finland — A Prototypical Knowledge Economy?

7. Data Analysis and Index Computation: Methodology

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